GLASER, Christophle ( Christophe Christopher Glaser ).:TRAITE DE LA CHYMIE enseignant par une brieve et facile methode toutes ses plus necessaires preparations Paris, chez l&#39;Autheur, 1663.. FIRST EDITION 1663, French text, small 8vo, approximately 180 x 105 mm, 7 x 4¼ inches, engraved title page with 2 small images and decorative border, 2 double page plates of apparatus, a few woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, pages: (18), 378, (4), last leaf of prelims is a blank, bound in contemporary vellum, hand lettered to spine. Vellum wrinkled, darkened and slightly stained, small surface chip to edge of both covers, lacking front pastedown and free endpaper, small neat repair to top outer corner of engraved title page, replacing missing tip of border with photocopy, last 4 leaves of prelims damp stained in outer corners and fore-edge margin, intermittent pale damp staining to margins, heavier in a few places, 1 small closed margin tear, repaired neatly, small light ink stain on 1 page, no loss of text, tiny ink spot to 2 margins, plates lightly damp stained in lower margin and 1 with some numbers in ink on blank side. Binding tight and firm. A good copy of the very scarce first edition. Christopher Glaser (d. circa 1676), was a wellknown Swiss pharmaceutical chemist from Basle who became demonstrator of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, and apothecary to Louis XIV and to the duke of Orleans. He is remembered for his method of making potassium sulphate and his name is attached to the native salt - Glaserite. He is also notorious for having been implicated in the famous poisoning case involving la Marquise de Brinvilliers which forced him to leave Paris. This work is a sort of manual of chemistry which aims to provide information and instruction on preparing chemical remedies for a wide range of ailments and conditions. It was very successful running into 10 editions in French between 1663 and 1710 plus 1 English edition and 5 German. It is divided into 2 books, the first being a general introduction to the subject including information on apparatus and furnaces. The second is divided into 3 sections, the first and largest is on the preparations of remedies made from minerals including gold, silver, lead, tin, iron, copper, mercury, antinomy, cinabar, bismuth, nitre, vitriol, arsenic, sulphur, and ambergris (page 70-272). Section II is on remedies derived from plants including the preparation of opium and drugs from lettuce and the final brief section is on remedies derived from animals, starting with "L&#39;huile & le sel volatil de crane humain" which when prepared according to the directions is good for fits; this is followed by a preparation calling for the distillation of vipers&#39; flesh. Duveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica, page 251; Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Volume I, page 320-1 citing German editions only; Wellcome Library III, page 121, French reprint only; Sotheby&#39;s Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Part 4, No. 901 (English first edition). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. POSTAGE AT COST.

VASCONCELLOS, P. Simão de, S.J.Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil ?. Lisbon, Na Officina de Henrique Valente de Oliveira, Impressor delRey, 1663. - Printed in 2 columns, with double-rule border between columns and around edges. Engraved title-page, (6 ll.), 188 pp. [lacking pp. 179-184, as in all known copies], 528 pp., (6 ll.). Folio (34.9 x 24.7 cm.), modern period crimson morocco (lower half of front joint cracked and repaired, minor wear and rubbing to corners, head of spine, raised bands), richly gilt-tooled on both covers, spine richly gilt with raised bands in six compartments, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endleaves, text block edges sprinkled red and brown (from a contemporary binding). Repair to outer margin of final leaf and about 12 x 3 cm. to leaf Aa4. Light dampstains at lower margins of final 22 leaves. Minor, light soiling to engraved and printed title pages. Overall in very good condition, internally close to fine. Old, unidentified floral embossed stamp in outer margins of both title pages. ---- FIRST EDITION. Borba de Moraes comments, "The @Chronica is considered by Portuguese bibliophiles to be a typographical masterpiece ? The frontispiece engraved by A. Clauwet is missing in many copies. The @Chronica is a fundamental book concerning the history of Brazil, and contains the first printing of P. José de Anchieta's poem to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is rare today." Borba also points out that most copies have rather narrow margins, cut close to the border. In this copy the upper margins extend as high as 2 cm. beyond the border, the outer ones can be almost 2 cm., while the lower margins are sometims almost 2.5 cm., and the overall size of the pages is 33.3 x 23.7 cm.After the work had been printed, Father Jacinto de Magistris pointed out a passage in the section "Noticias antecedentes, curiosas, e necessarias" in which Vasconcellos speculated that the earthly paradise was located in Portuguese America. The 10 copies that had been distributed were hastily recalled, and pages 179-184, containing this possible heresy, were excised. In this copy they are missing, as in all other copies known.At the end of the volume (pp. 481-528) is the first appearance in print of Father José de Anchieta's 5,786-verse neo-Latin poem @De beata Virgine Dei matre Maria. Anchieta, "the Apostle of Brazil," vowed to write a poem on the Virgin's life while negotiating with the Tamoyos at Iperoig, in order to keep himself from being tempted by Indian women. Since he had no paper or writing instruments, the story goes, he traced the verses on the sand and memorized what he had written each day. The poem was subsequently printed in Vasconcellos' @Vida do veneravel Padre Joseph de Anchieta, Lisbon 1672, and many times thereafter.The beautiful engraved frontispiece, by A. Clouwet of Antwerp, shows a ship with sails unfurled, representing the Society of Jesus; several Jesuits can be seen aboard the vessel. The border of the engraving incorporates Brazilian flora and fauna, such as monkeys and a crocodile.Vasconcellos (1597-1671), a native of Porto, grew up in Brazil and entered the Jesuit order at Bahia in 1616. He accompanied Father Antonio Vieira to Lisbon in 1641 and served as Jesuit Provincial in Brazil, which gave him access to a great deal of primary material. He died in Rio de Janeiro.---- Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 888-9. Berger, @Bibliografia do Rio de Janeiro (1980) p. 450. Brunet II, 846. Arouca V51. Innocêncio VII, 286; XIX, 234. Leite IX, 173-6: pointing out Vasconcellos' considerable influence on the Brazil of his era, and mentioning his knowledge of the "lingua brasilica." Mindlin, @Highlights 157. Backer-Sommervogel VIII, 485. Streit II, 2425. Borba de Moraes and Berrien, @Manual bibliográfico de estudos brasileiros, p. 399: noting that this work and two others by Vasconcellos are our primary seventeeth-century sources for the activities of the Jesuits in Brazil. Barbosa Machado III, 724. Pinto de Mattos (1970) p. 609. Sabin 98651. Bosch 131. Rodrigues 2457. Palha 2517. JCB I, iii, 103-4. JCB, @Portuguese and Brazilian Books 663/3. JFB (1994) V34. Monteverde 5473. Azev [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

SHAKESPEARE WilliamComedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies: Leaf from ?The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida? London: Printed by Roger Daniel for Phillip Chetwinde, 1663-1664. From the Third Folio (unknown state). Very slight browning, left margin with rubbing and some tears (being a leaf from a book), else fine. Folio (340 x 221 mm).

SEILE, AnaeAmericae Nova Descriptio London, 1663. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 13.25" x 16.50". Rare map of the Americas. Anae Seile had the map engraved by Robert Vaughan for a new edition of Peter Heylin&#39;s "Cosmographie" when she published the third edition of his work. No mention of the Great Lakes and the Hudson River is called Hudson&#39;s Bay. Two sailing ships, two sea monsters and a rendering of a smoke house in Brazil decorate this unusual map. The only known 17th century map by a woman. Full margins, some foxing near Arctic Circle and light stains in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese tissue hinges provided on verso.

QUARLES Francis 1592-1644Emblems with Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man London: I W (Williams) & FE (Eglesfield), 1663 In contemporary worn full calf, blind tooling, scuffed, corners and edges bumped and worn. Spine, calf mostly gone, no label. Internally, covers almost detached, endpages soiled and with numerous contemp. ink names, first 5 leaves have some paper loss at edges, lacks the portrait frontis, the engraved titlepage has some ink names to head, plate is just complete as the leading edge margins have worn away, [6],381 pp, numerous woodcuts, some with ink note beside, pages 45-56 have a 2 inch tear from base up. Pages 115/116 LACKING, & page 117/118 missing lower half, final blank is full of ink notes and an image. Very rare and would benefit from some TLC! (ESTC R219037)

Walter, Nehemiah.Discourses on the Whole LVth Chapter of Isaiah. Preparatory to Communion at the Lord's Table. To which is Added, the Author's Last Sermon? 8vo, contemporary tooled sheep, [1], xxvi, [4], 512 pp. Top cover detached, front endpaper almost detached, binding very worn, ex-library, with an embossed stamp on title, notation and signature on endpapers, light dampstaining, browning throughout. Walter (1663-1750) was born in Ireland, but would become the pastor of the First Church in Roxbury (Massachusetts), and married Increase Mather's daughter. The preface of this rather scarce title would be signed in print by Thomas Prince and Thomas Foxcroft. Evans 7588.

Quarles, FrancisEmblemes/ with Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man London: For J.W & F. E., 1663. 2 parts in 1 vol. Bound in a beautiful but later 17th-cent morocco fully decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, all edges gilt, title page soiled with tiny hole in upper margin; lacking A6 (page 4 & 5 of which page four was blank and page five was an illustration of Eve standing near a tree with the serphant) lower portion of A8 excised (which was also an illustration, that of Adam) 92 woodblock illustrations which includes engraved title page and engraved half title to second book. A beautifully bound early book.. 12mo.

SEILE, AnaeAmericae Nova Descriptio London 1663 - Rare map of the Americas. Anae Seile had the map engraved by Robert Vaughan for a new edition of Peter Heylin's "Cosmographie" when she published the third edition of his work. No mention of the Great Lakes and the Hudson River is called Hudson's Bay. Two sailing ships, two sea monsters and a rendering of a smoke house in Brazil decorate this unusual map. The only known 17th century map by a woman. Full margins, some foxing near Arctic Circle and light stains in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese tissue hinges provided on verso. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 13.25" x 16.50".

MILTON, JOHNParadise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books London: Simmons. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, one of only 1300 copies printing, of Milton&#39;s masterpiece. Paradise Lost was finally completed by 1663, but Milton&#39;s reputation as a champion of the republic meant that he could not publish the poem immediately. The politically opportune moment for the publication of Paradise Lost finally arose in the spring of 1667. On 27 April Milton sealed a contract (now in the British Library) with the printer Samuel Simmons; Milton received £5 immediately, with the promise of another £5 when the first edition of 1300 copies had been sold&hellip; The first edition was exhausted in the spring of 1669, and on 26 April Simmons paid Milton another £5... "Milton&#39;s epic was registered as &#39;Paradise Lost: a Poem in Ten Books&#39; on 20 August 1667, and was published late in October or early in November. Sir John Denham is said (by Jonathan Richardson the elder) to have come into the House of Commons (which had reconvened on 10 October) carrying a sheet of Paradise Lost &#39;wet from the press&#39; and proclaiming it &#39;part of the noblest poem that ever was wrote in any language or any age&#39; (Masson, 6.628); by mid-November the poem was the subject of correspondence between John Beale and John Evelyn. The poem did not sell particularly quickly: between 1667 and 1669 six successive title-pages, each for a different issue, were required to sell the first edition of 1300 copies. The first three editions of Paradise Lost sold in modest numbers, but the fourth edition, a sumptuous gilt-edged folio published in 1688, was bought by subscription by many of the most influential readers in England, and thereafter the poem came to be widely regarded as England&#39;s national epic" (Dictionary of National Biography). The printing history of the first edition of Paradise Lost is famously complex. This first edition has the traditional 4th state of the title as cancel (dated 1668 and with fleur-de-lis decoration) and seven leaves of preliminaries as cancels including the Argument, Verse, and Errata (with no printer&#39;s note at beginning of Argument). London: printed by S. Simmons, and to be sold by S. Thomson at the Bishops-Head in Duck-lane, H. Mortlack at the White Hart in Westminster Hall, M. Walker under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, and R. Boulter at the Turks-Head in Bishopsgate street, 1668. Quarto (174x132 mm), contemporary full calf rebacked; custom box. A few small neat early ink notations; text exceptionally clean. A little wear to binding. A very handsome copy.

Le Muet, Pierre (Mvet)Maniere de Bien Bastir pour Toutes Sortes de Personnes...Revue, Augmentee et Enrichie en cette Seconde Edition de plusieurs Figures, de beaux Bastimens & Edifices...[and] Augmentations de Nouveaux Bastimens Faits en France...(1663 Paris: Jean de Puis. 1663. Hardcover. Very Good. 1663, Second Edition. Folio, original old dark brown calf, regular title page with inset engraving dated 1663, engraved title page dated 1664, pp. (8), 113, with engraved title & 53 plates, the second part with no text and 31 numbered plates, most of which are folding. Good to very good copy, original binding is slightly dried and rubbed, mild wear to corners and joints and some bowing to boards, light ex-library marks: circular paper stamp to bottom of spine, bookplate (with &#39;withdrawn&#39; stamp) to pastedown, perforated stamp to title page, small ink stamp to bottom of engraved title page, no other library marks. Text and plates are very good overall with minor soil to outer page, the double page plate in the first part having two three-inch tears extending down from the top edge, some of the other folding plates in the second part exhibiting light wrinkling and lightest edgewear. Rarely comes up at auction or on the marketplace. A nice copy with only a few faults. `

AnonymousCabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government G. Bedell, T. Collins, 1663 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Later Printing. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. First title page is done in black and red. Most of the balance of the title and printing information will follow, "In Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State As well Foreign and Domestic, In the Reigns of King HENRY the Eighth, Q: ELIZABETH, K: JAMES, and K: CHARLES." This is followed by two more paragraphs of information. Printing data reads as follows, "LONDON, Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, M: DC: LXIII." This is the one volume edition, with only the date of 1663 listed in the text. The book measures 12 1/4" by 8 1/4". There are 416 paginated pages followed by TOC of five leaves, ten pages. At the bottom of the final sheet an errata listing is given. The exterior of the book has five spine ribs and a bronze gilt stamped title label. At its bottom appears the date 1673, I presume this to be the date at which it was placed in this binding. The boards have a good deal of corner fatigue, two pencil barrel size scars at upper front, another scar at center back, a variety of other scarring and chipping are evident. Boards have stamped patterning at their very worn edges. The boards have been reworked at their spine hinges. Inside the book there is a long-hand penned note on the first pastedown. The first endsheet has various pencilled notings. Second endsheet is blank facing page verso printing note from Bennet followed by the title page. Two blank endsheets appear at the back of the volume. The pastedowns have a uniform edge darkening, some of which has transfered to adjacent endsheets, which I attribute to the glue used. The text has an assortment of blemishes, mild dogearings. No notable missing sections or major chips, legible. The top edge is a dark walnut color, the other edges a speckled red. It has the heavy wavy character that seems to be present in all books of this vintage..

BOR, Livinus.Amboinse oorlogen, door Arnold de Vlaming van Oudshoorn. Als superintendent, over d' Oosterse gewesten oorlogaftig ten eind gebracht. - Delft, Arnold Bon, 1663.12mo. Contemporary vellum (sl. soiled). With engraved title-page, woodcut printer's device on title and 6 folding engraved plates. (24),369, (12) pp.* First edition. - Levinus Bor 'entered Arnold de Vlamingh van Oudtshoorn's service as his assistant in 1650 and became his secretary later. Bor was a witness to the suppression of the rebellion in the Ambonese islands in 1651-1656. In his booklet, written in 1657, he sets out to give a report on the basis of the papers at his disposal of the Vlamingh's methods of warfare and of the latter's measures to safequard the VOC's interest for a long time ahead. The entire work is suffered with a tone of approval and admiration for the feats of the extremely harsh de Vlamingh. Bor shows no understanding whatever for the motives inspiring the Moluccan rebels' (Polman, The Central Moluccas, p.21). Arnold de Vlamingh van Oudshoorn was Governor of Ambon from 1647 to 1655. - Extremely rare.Ruinen A20; Landwehr, VOC, 233; Cat. KITLV p.32. [Attributes: First Edition]

[VOC] BOR, LevinusAmboinse Oorlogen, Door Arnold de Vlaming van Oudshoorn Als Superintendent, over d&#39;Oosterse gewesten Oorlogaftig ten eind gebracht Delft: Arnold Bon, 1663. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [12] ff including engraved frontispiece and letter press title, 369 pp, [7] ff including 1 blank, and with 6 double-page engraved plates. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, repair to upper corner of front cover, some nicking and repairs to upper margin of first few leaves including engraved title page; plate 1 a little toned, pages and plates otherwise fresh and in crisp impression. Very rare first and only edition of this contemporary illustrated account of the Ambon Wars in the Moluccas- "one of the bloodiest series of campaigns in VOC history" - written by the eyewitness Levinus Bor, private secretary to Superintendent Arnold de Vlaming during the conflict. De Vlaming used the war as an excuse to gain a monopoly on the spice trade, destroying plantations throughout the islands as well as brutally suppressing the native uprising. Until the late 18th century, the Moluccas remained the sole source of cloves, mace, and nutmeg, forming a lucrative trade for the European powers who controlled them. When the island of Hoamoal rebelled, Arnold de Vlaming was quick to take advantage of the situation by ordering the destruction of its clove plantations, securing the Dutch monopoly. "Then de Vlaming moved against the Ternaten opponents based on Hoamoal and their Makasarese and Malay allies in one of the bloodiest series of campaigns in VOC history. With the VOC sailed the Ambonese Christians in their war-prauws.In 1656 the population that remained was deported to Ambon. All spice trees on Hoamoal were destroyed, and thereafter it was devoid of human habitation except for passing hongi (war-fleet) expeditions looking for any wild cloves requiring destruction." (Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia, p. 75) The present work, the only account of the episode noted in Landwehr&#39;s bibliography of the VOC, is a necessarily obsequious portrayal of Dutch actions during the conflict. However, the engraved plates make no attempt to hide the bloodthirsty nature of the affair - &#39;resolved martially&#39;, as the title suggests. The engraved titlepage, for example, is flanked by figures of a Dutch soldier opposite a black native carrying shield and sword, while the vignette at the foot of the page shows the Dutch firing rifles at native forces who return fire with spears. The first engraved double-paged plate depicts smiling, clothed natives greeting Dutch soldiers upon their arrival; the next shows the execution [?] of one native by blowpipe; a third shows natives in war canoes engaging in a naval battle alongside Dutch men-of-war; post-defeat, the fifth plate presents natives in poses of extreme supplication approaching a Dutch official who carries a severed black head in a basket; and a final engraving shows natives and Dutchmen burning a large idol upon a pyre. Arnold de Vlaming van Oudshoorn was Governor of Ambon from 1647 to 1650 and Superintendent of the region from 1652 to 1656. A controversial figure due to the professed Catholicism of his parents, it was his tenure during the Ambon Wars which saw the "strenuous military measures that earned him both fame and notoriety" (Ricklefs, p. 75). Two American copies of the work are listed on OCLC, at Cornell and the NYPL. Oddly, Landwehr #233 fails to mention any plates in this work. * Landwehr VOC 233; see also Du Perron, De Muze van Jan Companjie (1939) pp. 20-23; Ricklefs, A history of modern Indonesia.

SPINOZA [Benedict].Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ Accesserunt Ejusdem Cogitata Metaphysica. Johannem Riewerts, Amstelodami [Amsterdam] 1663 - TP + [i]-[vii] = Præfatio + [viii] = Ad Librum + [ix]-[xiv] = Index + 1-90 + [91] = half-title _ 93-140; Small Quarto. First Edition. (Kingma-Offenberg 1)First Edition of Spinoza's First Book - Explicating Descartes.Spinoza's first work is the only one published during his lifetime that identified him as the author and had the correct information on the printer-publisher. Spinoza's two later works (Tractatus & Opera) were very much his own radical thought (rather than a reworking of Descartes ideas as here) and so were necessarily published anonymously and listing false information about the printer-publisher on the title page. He radical nature of Spinoza's thought and the dangers of publishing such materials in this time and place are brilliantly explained in Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment (Oxford, 2001). Here Spinoza presents an exposition of Cartesian philosophy but he has recast it using his own geometrical method of reasoning and presentation. The origins of this work are interesting and clearly explained by the author himself in a letter to his friend, Oldenburg, that was written shortly after publication: "Some of my friends asked me to make them a copy of a treatise containing a precise account of the Second Part of Descartes' Principia Philosophiæ [1644], demonstrated in the geometric style, and of the main points treated in metaphysics. Previously, I had dictated this to a certain young man to whom I did not want to teach my own opinions openly. They asked me to prepare the First Part also by the same method, as soon as I could. Not to disappoint my friends, I immediately undertook to do this and finished it in two weeks. I delivered it to my friends, who in the end asked me to let them publish the whole work. They easily won my agreement, on the condition that one of them [Lodewijk Meyer], in my presence, would provide it with a more elegant style and add a short preface warning readers that I did not acknowledge all the opinions contained in this treatise as my own, since I had written many things in it which were the opposite of what I held, and illustrating this by one or two examples. One of my friends, to whose care the publishing of this little book has been entrusted, has promised to do all this and that is why I stayed for a while in Amsterdam." (Nadler, Spinoza, A Life, p. 205)This rather straightforward - though completely reformatted - exposition of Descartes is followed by the Cogita Metaphysica (Metaphysical Thoughts- pp. 91-140 - with its own title page) which is written from the Cartesian perspective (defending, for instance, the freedom of the will) but with some serious foreshadowing of Spinoza's later doctrines. Contemporary vellum boards professionallhy rebacked with a nicely matching vellum spine. With two small contemporary annotations fading ink on pages 122 & 124 (4 lines & 6 lines respectively). Overall, a lovley copy of this first and rather rare work by Spinoza. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. [Attributes: First Edition]

Homann, Johann Baptist.Totius Africa Nova Reprasentatio? Engraved double page, hand colored, large cartouche, 495 x 580 mm (22 1/2" x 19 "). Margins are average, some minor aging and foxing, a nick or two in the margins; otherwise very nice, colorful, and with a strong impression. Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) was considered the father of German mapmaking, and in 1715 was actually appointed the Geographer to the Emperor. He founded his mapmaking business in 1702, and he would produce several major atlases between 1707 and 1716. The current map includes a note about the accuracy of the map in identifying the source of the Nile. It also includes an elaborate cartouche featuring animals and native Africans. The map is very colorful, and is map number 72 in Norwich. Norwich # 72. Van De Gohm: Antique Maps. Bagrow: History of Cartography. $1250

NICERON, Jean François / MERSENNE, MarinLa Perspective Curieuse...Divisée en Quatre Livres Avec l&#146;Optrique et La Catoptrique du R.P. Mersenne Jean du Puis/Widow of Langlois Paris: Jean du Puis/Widow of Langlois, 1663. Scarce edition of this important treatise on perspective by the most scientifically rigorous of 17th-century French theorists, of particular interest for its contention that &#147;the illustrations to earlier treatises were often defective&#148; (Millard), thus making it the first work on the subject to treat the problem of didactic illustration in a deliberate and self-conscious manner. A comprehensive textbook, Book I gives basic geometrical definitions and an introduction to perspective construction; Book II treats simple and deformed perspective&#151;namely, the curved or irregular surfaces found in vaulted ceilings, niches etc., and examines the necessary surface distortion (anamorphosis) to bring a picture painted on such a surface into perspective; Book III deals with more complex cases of anamorphosis, such as reflections on flat, cylindrical and conical surfaces; and Book IV covers the use of dioptrics for placing figures on flat surfaces. The sections of books II and III dealing with anamorphosis were particularly important, whether in Niceron&#146;s own practice as a painter or for later artists or theorists (see the chapter on Niceron in Baltru&#154;aitis), and according to Mahoney (DSB), the discussion of refraction in Book IV possibly contains &#147;the first published reference to Descartes&#146; derivation of the law of refraction&#148; (X.104). The work first appeared in French in 1638; reprinted in 1646 and 1651, in the latter with the first appearance of Mersenne&#146;s treatise. This edition is a second edition of that reprint.* Millard French, 124 (1663); Wiebenson III.b.18; Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 129ff.; Baltru&#154;aitis, Anamorphosis, 51ff.. Folio [35 x 22.5 cm], engraved frontispiece signed Daret, (6) ff., including half-title and title, engraved portrait of Niceron signed M. Lasne, 191 (1) pp., with 7 woodcut diagrams in text and 50 numbered plates [49 full-page, 1 double page]; (6) ff., 134 pp. Note: plates bound at back. Bound in contemporary calf, covers ruled, spine with raised bands elaborately gilt; covers abraded and some small chips to spine on bands; former ownership stamp on verso of title; spotting and even toning or light browning on scattered leaves often seen in this work; wormhole in margin of plates 27 and following repaired extending into printed surface (generally only printed border). Otherwise very good.

Herschel, John Frederick WilliamResults of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope; Being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens Commence in 1825. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847 INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, A FOLIO FIRST EDITION of "the first great star-atlas of the southern hemisphere' (Norman Catalogue 1056). "With this monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, Herschel completed the task begun by his father William, who fifty years earlier had catalogued the northern celestial hemisphere. Using a twenty foot reflecting telescope, which he erected just south of Cape Town, Herschel swept the whole of the southern sky, cataloging nebulae, cluster and binary stars, carrying out the counts of over 68,000 stars.. . . he made detailed drawings and maps" (Honeyman 1663). "Herschel stands almost alone in his attempt to grapple with the dynamical problems presented by star-clusters, and his analysis of the Magellanic Clouds was decisive as to the status of nebulæ" (Oxford DNB).The story of the publication of this work is important, particularly given that this copy is inscribed in the author's hand, noted as such in print, and that no other such copies have been recorded. See scans attached. In print it reads "Presented by Algernon Duke of Northumberland to" and then in Herschel's hand "Professor Robinson, New York, With the Author's Compliments." Additionally, the dedication page notes in text that "This work is gratefully inscribed by the author." "By the end of 1842 [Herschel] had performed without assistance the computations necessary for the publication [in this work] of his Cape observations. In September 1843 the letterpress was ?fairly begun,? and after some delays the work appeared in 1847, at the cost of the Duke of Northumberland, in a large quarto volume, entitled ?Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834?8 at the Cape of Good Hope.?Besides the catalogues of nebulæ and double stars, it included profound discussions of various astronomical topics, and was enriched with over sixty exquisite engravings. He insisted in it upon the connection of sun-spots with the sun's rotation, and started the ?cyclonic theory? of their origin. [Herschel] investigated graphically the distribution of nebulæ, but fluctuated in his views as to their nature. Regarding them in 1825 as probably composed of ?a self-luminous or phosphorescent substance, gradually subsiding into stars and sidereal systems? (Memoirs Royal Astronomical Society, ii. 487), he ascribed to them later a stellar constitution, and finally inclined to suppose them formed of ?discrete luminous bodies floating in a non-luminous medium" (ibid).CONDITION & DETAILS: Folio (13 x 10.25 inches; 325 x 256mm). [12], xx, [452 pp], 17 plates, [6 ii, errata and additions, often lacking]. Ex-libris bearing only a tiny 'withdrawn' stamp on the front pastedown and no other library markings whatsoever. ILLUSTRATION: 17 plates. The first 13 plates, including the four folding plates, are engraved, the remaining four are lithographed. An inch wide repair to the rear of 3 plates (apparently just to reinforce things at the inner hinge; there are no tears). BINDING & INTERIOR: Bound in original maroon blind-stamped publisher's cloth. Rebacked at the spine; gilt-lettered title. Small conservator's repair to the cloth on the rear board. The interior hinges were at some point professionally reinforced. Minor scuffing and edgewear at the tips. Tightly and very solidly bound. Small tear at the upper inner margin of the frontispiece. Scattered light toning and foxing throughout. Handsome wide margins. Very good condition.

Justinian; Godefroy, DenisCodicis Dn. Justiniani Sacratissimi Principis PP. Aug. Repetitae 1663. Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Godefroy, Denis [1549-1622], Editor and Annotator. Codicis Dn. Justiniani Sacratissimi Principis PP. Aug. Repetitae Praelectionis Libri XII. Postrema Editio Prioribus Auctior et Emendatior. Frankfurt: Sumptibus Societis. Imprimebat Hieronymus Polichius, 1663. [xvi] pp., 1024 cols., [4] pp., 456 cols., [13] pp., 78 cols., [2] pp., 282 cols. Folio (14" x 9"). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece. Moderate rubbing with wear to extremities, chipping to spine ends, front board just beginning to separate but still secure. Large woodcut printer device, head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Faint dampstaining to head of text block, light foxing and browning to portions of text, internally clean. * Large-paper edition. Includes the Authenticae; Seu, Novellae Constitutiones, Feudorum Consuetudines, Constitutiones Friderici II. Imp. Extravagantes, Liber de Pace Constantiae, Epitome Feudorum and related writings and notes by Godefroy. Commissioned by the Emperor Justinian in 530 CE, the body of writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis preserved and restated all existing Roman law. Compiled in three years under the direction of Tribonium, it was both a critical restatement of earlier law and jurisprudential writings and a complete collection of recent legislation. It is divided into four books, the Institutes, Digest, Code and Novels. The Code contains the laws in force during Justinian&#39;s reign. It is divided into 12 books. Book 1 deals with ecclesiastical law, the sources of law, and the duties of high officials. Books 2-8 deal with private law. Book 9 deals with criminal law. Books 10-12 deal with administrative law. It received a great deal of commentary during the medieval and early modern eras. That of Denis Godefroy was influential well into the twentieth century. Godefroy was a jurist, humanist, historian, scholar of Roman law and professor at the Universities of Geneva and Heidelberg. He was also the first to apply the collective name Corpus Juris Civilis to Justinian&#39;s works. KVK lo

[Eliot Indian Bible]:[ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE ELIOT INDIAN BIBLE, THE FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN AMERICA] [Cambridge: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663].. [2]pp., printed in double columns. Small quarto. Dbd. Minor edge wear and soiling. Very good. This leaf is from the first edition of the Eliot Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in North America and the first Bible in an American Indian language. The printing of this Bible was a monumental undertaking, and it took more than two and a half years to set the type and print the work. The recto of this leaf contains Ezekiel, chapter six, verses eleven to the end and chapter seven, verses one through twenty and the first few words of verse twenty-one. The verso contains the final six verses of the Book of Ezekiel, and the first sixteen verses of chapter eight.

Lentulus, Cyriacus (1620-1678)Aula Tiberiana et Solerissimi Ad Imperandum Principis Idea; Cornelius Tacitus Monitis, Ex Annalium Eius Medulla Erutis et Loberiori Disceptandi Spatio Ad Nostri Aevi Usum Accomodatis Civilem in Orchestram et Militarem Productus Herbornae Nassoviorum: Corvinius, 1663. 483p. The German political philosopher who earlier had traced the work of Augustus here further develops his ideas from his earliest work at Herborn before this professorship at Marburg where his attacks upon Descartes and Grotius became polemical and influenced most Protestant scholars for succeeding generations. Schweiger, Handbuch der Classichen Bibliographie 1040. Title page has printer&#39;s device. There is a closed tear of 1/2" on title page else a near fine copy with clean text and tight binding.. Original Vellum. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mather, CottonMagnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History Of New-England, From Its First Planting In The Year 1620, Unto The Year Of Our Lord 1698 Folio, recently rebound in calf, consists of 7 books in one volume, folding map (linen-backed), [30], map, 38, [2], 75, 238, [2], 128-222, 100, 88, 118, [4] pp. As usual, lacking errata leaves, and first two blanks, left half of map made up in facsimile, first signature A (AN ATTESTATION, which should be bound after the title page is placed before the map) is bound incorrectly after D (per Church and Holmes). Minor marginal annotations, dampstaining affecting upper inner quarter of the first three books, some chips and folds in corners, occasional soiling, and wax remnant on title, leaves 6L2 and 6L3 with smaller margins, apparently taken from another copy; modern bookplate tipped in on front pastedown. First ad leaf out of register and trim, the other worn and extended at the inner margin, both with slight loss of text. Handsomely rebound in full panel calf, sewn endbands, title label on spine. The first edition of Cotton Mather?s (1663-1728) Magnalia Christi Americana has long been regarded as the most famous work produced during the colonial period. It contains a wealth of information on a broad range of subjects, and gives the reader a clear picture of colonial life. Of particular interest is his discussion of the Salem Witch trails, for which he challenges some of the methods used, and seems to be distancing himself from those events. Some historians would argue he played a not insignificant role in what happened in Salem. Other highlights include his discussion of the development of Harvard College, and the escape of Hannah Duston (1657-1736) from the Indians.

PELSAERT, FranÁoisOngeluckige Voyagie van het Schip Batavia Amsterdam,: Gillis Joosten Saeghman, n.d. but circa, 1663.. Small quarto, pp. 44, with a wood-engraved title-page vignette, one full-page wood-engraving, and six copper engraved illustrations in the text; some toning and a few marks but a very good copy with good margins and sharp impressions of the engravings; bound in simple marbled paper wrappers. Very rare and exceptionally important: an early edition of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the "unlucky voyage" of the VOC ship Batavia, the most desirable of all books relating to Western Australia, a celebrated rarity of Australian book collecting, and the most important of all Dutch Australiana. Pelsaert's boat voyage along the West Australian coast to seek help at Batavia was the first extensive discovery of the Australian continent, exceeded only by the later voyages of Abel Tasman.First published in 1647, there were essentially six editions, with three variants, published in the seventeenth century (Tiele, 235-243; Landwehr, VOC, 406-411). This is the last of the early editions; all the early editions are of great rarity on the market. This version has sometimes been misidentified, appearing in some library catalogues wrongly dated 1648.The fine engraved illustrations in the book are famous; they include the celebrated scene of the Batavia foundering on the Houtman Abrolhos in the Indian Ocean west of modern Geraldton, graphic reproductions of the mutiny and slaughter on the islands, and the hanging of the mutineers on Seal Island. These are the earliest printed representations of any Australian scenes.The early Dutch editions of Pelsaert's voyage are of the greatest importance as the first published accounts of any voyage of Australian discovery. The story of the wreck itself, in Drake-Brockman's words, "provides the greatest dramatic tragedy in Australian history beside which the mutiny on the Bounty is an anaemic tale".The previous edition had included the innovation of having the dramatic scene showing the foundering of the Batavia on the title-page, where this edition includes what is believed to be the vessel under full sail with, to its stern, the smaller rescue vessel Sardam, which was dispatched by the VOC under the command of Pelsaert to rescue the survivors. This image had previously been used by the publisher Hartgers for his edition of 1648.Landwehr, VOC, 411; Politzer, 'Bibliography of Dutch Literature on Australia', p. 1 (first edition); Robert, 706; Schilder, 'Australia Unveiled', pp. 111-128; Tiele, 'MÈmoire', 243; Tiele, 'Nederlandsche Bibliographie', 851n.

SHAKESPEARE WilliamComedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies: Leaf from â€œThe Tragedy of Troilus and Cressidaâ€ London: Printed by Roger Daniel for Phillip Chetwinde, 1663-1664. From the Third Folio (unknown state). Very slight browning, left margin with rubbing and some tears (being a leaf from a book), else fine. Folio (340 x 221 mm).